• Ethereum UX roadmap updates.

• EF ESP pauses open grant applications.

• EigenLayer patches a bug on EigenPods.

• Clave releases Clave V2.

The Ethereum Foundation’s Improve UX track team released an update on its efforts to create a unified user experience across Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem, with a strong focus on interoperability through intent-based architecture and trustless cross-chain messaging. Key initiatives include the Open Intents Framework (OIF), a modular infrastructure for cross-chain intents, with a production-ready release, audits, and a full solver system expected by Q4 2025. The Ethereum Interoperability Layer (EIL), designed to provide trustless cross-L2 execution, will have its design released in October 2025.  Looking ahead, the team’s long-term vision is to integrate SNARKs more deeply into Ethereum’s infrastructure. The team also highlighted Kohaku, a privacy-first wallet project. Together, the efforts aim to make Ethereum’s multi-chain ecosystem feel seamless and secure.

The Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Program (ESP), which funds and supports Ethereum builders, has paused open grant applications to refine its priorities. ESP plans to shift to a more strategic, proactive funding model and coordinate closely with other EF teams. The team will continue hosting Office Hours to provide teams with guidance and non-financial support. According to data from butter.markets, the EF ESP has allocated over $144 million since 2020. In 2024 alone, the ESP distributed $3 million to 105 projects. The ESP team will announce an updated grants strategy by Q4 2025.

EigenLayer disclosed and patched a vulnerability in its EigenPods smart contract, reported via its Immunefi bug bounty program. The bug could have allowed a malicious actor to mint more beacon chain shares than they actually owned, potentially leading to inflated rewards and miscalculated slashable stake values. The issue was fixed, with no evidence of exploitation. Service remains uninterrupted, and no action is required for EigenLayer users.

Clave released Clave v2, the latest version of its mobile smart wallet, featuring seedless onboarding via passkeys and unified token balances across chains. The update is live now with initial support for Arbitrum and Base. It integrates with Privy for email-based account recovery. Clave v1 users must migrate their wallets to access the new features. Clave features integrations with Relay and Across for bridging and Morpho for DeFi lending.

• Besu v25.8.0 release

• Forkcast updates

• Devconnect Ethereum Day

• ETH Strategy collabs with Rocket Pool

• Ethdevnews weekly #4

• Fileverse dDocs updates

• New EIPs on the horizon

• Learn about EF Steel team

• Ethproofs countdown

• EDoE interview with Texture

• Sharplink ETH dashboard

• Pudgy releases Pudgy Party

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• U.S. posts GDP data onchain.

• Safe introduces ERC-7955.

• ECF introduces Burned ETH.

• BitMine buys 78,791 ETH.

The U.S. Department of Commerce published Q2 2025 GDP data on nine blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum One, Polygon PoS, and Optimism, marking the first time a U.S. federal agency has published official economic data onchain. The Department published a SHA256 hash of the GDP release and its topline figure leveraging Pyth and Chainlink oracles. Centralized exchanges Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken supported the execution, with Kraken onboarding the Department as a client and facilitating the transactions. Chainlink also made six key macroeconomic metrics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) available onchain, which will be updated monthly or quarterly.

Safe introduced ERC-7955, a new standard for deploying a universal CREATE2 factory at a fixed address on any EVM-compatible chain. It enables deterministic, permissionless Safe contract deployments without relying on private keys or sealed transactions, making deployments permissionless and recoverable, allowing failed deployments to be retried. The standard removes reliance on the Safe team for deploying Safe smart contracts on new chains. Safe also released a web-based deployment tool to simplify the deployment process. ERC-7955 can act as a drop-in replacement for both the Safe Singleton Factory and Nick Johnson’s CREATE2 deployment proxy.

The Ethereum Community Foundation introduced Burned ETH (BETH), an ERC-20 token representing provably burned ETH. When ETH is sent to the BETH smart contract, it is immediately forwarded to a burn address, permanently removing it from circulation. The contract then mints an equal amount of BETH tokens, maintaining a 1:1 correspondence with the burned ETH. By tokenizing proof of burn, BETH builds on Ethereum’s EIP-1559 burn mechanism and makes burned ETH verifiable, unlocking use cases for new DeFi products. Ethereum Community Foundation is a new organization dedicated to funding Ethereum projects that aim to increase the price and utility of ETH.

BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. purchased an additional 78,791 ETH, bringing its treasury to 1.8 million ETH, worth over $8 billion. BitMine also appointed David Sharbutt to its Board of Directors. Sharbutt previously served as a board member for the American Tower Corporation. BitMine remains the largest corporate holder of ETH.

• ACDE #219 highlights

• Stablecoin supply hits ATH

• Euler hits $3b TVL

• PrivacyPools hits 1k ETH deposits

• Early days of ETH updates

• BTCS stakes on Rocket Pool

• Biconomy Supertransaction API

• Beaconchain Dashboard v2

• Soneium introduces Soneium score

• Gelato supports ArbOS 40

• Blobstream migrates Succinct

• Chainlink Reserve adds 42k LINK

• Fusaka audit starts Sept. 15

• Meet Mark Mackey

• Gas usage over time

• Redstone integrates Redstone

• CFTC pathway for offshore 

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• Aave launches Horizon RWA market.

• Optimism invites Ronin to OP Stack.

• DEF coalition letter to Congress.

• ETH Strategy partners with Derive.

Aave Labs launched Horizon, a permissioned lending market on Ethereum, enabling qualified institutions to borrow stablecoins against tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) such as U.S. Treasuries, Collateralized Loan Obligations, and Money Market Funds. Supported RWA collaterals include Superstate’s USTB and USCC, and Centrifuge’s JRTSY and JAAA tokens. Supported stablecoins include RLUSD, USDC, and GHO. While borrowing is restricted to qualified investors, anyone can lend stablecoins on the market. When RWA collateral is deposited, non-transferable aTokens are issued, respecting the issuer’s transfer permissions. Horizon is built on Aave v3.3 and leverages Chainlink SmartData for real-time net asset value data for RWAs.

Optimism proposed for Ronin Network to build its Layer 2 on the OP Stack, inviting the team to leverage a coalition of OP Stack collaborators, including EigenLayer for data availability, Boundless for zero-knowledge proving infrastructure, and Conduit for high-availability sequencing. Optimism highlighted that OP Stack chains account for 71% of all L2 transaction fees year-to-date. Earlier this month, Ronin Network announced plans to transition from a Layer 1 to a multi-purpose L2 on Ethereum. Ronin aims to become the “gamification engine” of Ethereum, and recently introduced a revenue-sharing program for developers.

The DeFi Education Fund (DEF), joined by a coalition of 115 crypto projects and builders, submitted a letter to Congress urging federal protections for software developers and non-custodial service providers in upcoming U.S. market structure legislation.  The letter calls for explicit safeguards to prevent developers from being prosecuted as money transmitters. for building or maintaining blockchain networks and non-custodial software interfaces. DEF highlighted a 7% decline in the U.S. share of open-source software developers. The coalition calls on Congress to treat blockchain as neutral infrastructure and enact clear, nationwide protections to support innovation.

ETH Strategy, a crypto-native ETH treasury protocol, partnered with Derive to launch the Perpetual Note Vault. The vault is a yield-generating product that uses STRAT convertible notes on Ethereum and executes options on Derive Chain. STRAT is ETH Strategy’s native convertible note that provides leveraged ETH exposure. The new product aims to deliver USD-denominated yield by monetizing ETH’s volatility. Derive is a decentralized derivatives platform built for programmable options, perpetuals, and structured products.

• Ethdotorg translatathon goes live

• ECF releases BlobKit SDK v2

• EIP-7928 Breakout #1 agenda

• Obol Charon v1.6.0 release

• Blobs hit capacity for an hour

• The Ether Machine ETHM on Nasdaq

• BuilderNet engineering sync

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